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Fans of her brashly poetic, sexually frank 1993 epic, ''Exile in Guyville,'' thought they knew Liz Phair intimately. But many have taken her moves toward cleaner production and, in 2003, pure radio-ready confection as a betrayal.

Liz Phair's disgust, expressed in songs about being taken advantage of by so-called friends and lovers, has helped her grow from a bedroom musician to a college-radio favorite in two years. In fact, fans are so drawn to the flame of her bad memories that while she was singing a song about regretting a one-night stand, one male fan yelled, "Marry me, Liz."

Liz Phair puts new ideas in deceptively familiar packages. Ms. Phair, a songwriter from Chicago, leads a basic four-piece rock band, strumming and chugging through tunes based in folk-rock and the Rolling Stones.

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